A Discovery. 141 



or he would not have said that Hawkins 

 "fixes the date of the first edition at 

 about 1660." As noted above, Hawkins 

 gives the correct date, 1653. 



WHAT WERE THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN 

 WALTON COPIED FROM ? AN IN- 

 TERESTING DISCOVERY. 



Until this evening, when writing these 

 lines, I had often wondered what the 

 artist who engraved the fish in Walton's 

 book copied them from. Had he the 

 fish themselves, or did he copy some exist- 

 ing illustrations? Knowing that Walton 

 frequently refers to the celebrated German 

 naturalist Gesner, I took down from the 

 shelf a copy of Dr. Conrad Forer's Ausz- 

 furliche beschreibung und lebendige Conter- 

 factur aller und jeden Fischen, von dein 

 kleinsten Fischlein an bisz auffden grosten 

 Wallfisch, being the second part of a mag- 

 nificent folio volume of over one thousand 

 pages full of illustrations of animals, 

 birds, reptiles, fishes, etc. It is a revised 

 and enlarged German translation of 

 Doctor Conrad Gesner's work Latein 

 erstmals beschrieben^ and was printed at 

 Frankfort by Johann Saur, and published 

 by Robert Cambier's Heirs in the year 

 1598. In this volume I found the 



